Server Management Ver. 2.01 User Manual

SMS Application
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5.3.1 Viewing System Status
SMS supervises the real-time running status of the server, and provides the real-time information of
CPU, Memory, Partition and NIC. For servers with IPMI support, the real-time values of IPMI sensors
will also be offered. Thus, the administrator can easily know whether the server is in healthy status or
not and take corresponding actions manually if necessary, or set thresholds and define event triggers to
realize automatic management of the system status.
You can view the system status information in the System Status pages of SMS which offers the
following information. Basing on this information, you can evaluate the hardware performance and
healthy status and determine the system upgrading time.
 Usage histories of CPU and memory
 Current usage percentage of partition
 Traffic history of NIC
 IPMI hardware status and sensors values.
The threshold values of the above items are also shown so that you can easily analyze how far the
current status is away from the threshold value.
Besides through the System Status module, you can also acquire the status summary information
through SMS report. In this case, you need to define the specific report contents in advance.
5.3.2 Controlling System Status
With the SMS Threshold module, you can control the system status by setting threshold values. for the
hardware usages (CPU, memory and partition), NIC traffic, and IPMI sensors.
The SMS agent keeps watching on the status of CPU, memory, partition and NIC to judge whether the
threshold values are exceeded.
IPMI sensors supervise the status of fan, power supply, and temperature. With SMS, you can set the
agent thresholds values, so that when the IPMI sensors' values exceed these values, the SMS agent will
trigger corresponding actions to protect the IPMI hardware items.